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Greetings:
I was wondering if there exists any good literature which address the problem of the overwhelmingly strong tendency in the general population to desirebiological children ("I want children that are -my- -own") over adoptive children -- from a psychological and/or anthropological standpoint; I'm especially interested in cross-cultural comparisons of this stigma. Thanks! jehanne |
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"Linda Fortney" Quote:
I asked this question here because I know from productive experience that -asking- people who know a topic well is usually just as productive (or moreso) in finding information as database searches -- particularly when searching for information on a topic that's admittedly a bit fuzzy and multi-disciplinary (such as this). It allows people to be useful by sharing their wisdom, and it cuts down on duplication of effort. It's quite a different game than just hunting down statistics. jehanne |
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jehanne_daix@hotmail.com (jehanne) wrote in message news:<8bd5e411.0307250623.7cb88b01@posting.google. com>...
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both plant and animal, which was designed to ensure the continuation of a species, as a problem? Di |
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"Dian" <patrice68@bigpond.com.au> wrote in message news:c599139c.0307251439.71adc27e@posting.google.c om... Quote:
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things are particularly protective of their offspring and in some cases would consider them a viable choice for dinner. Moreover, it seems to me there are numerous examples of humans being able to modify a great number of our natural tendencies to more baser biological instincts -- and with good reason. Finally, for humans, the primary biological/desire to continue the species involves intercourse (or laboratory manipulation), not necessarily who raises the child. |
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"mdginzo" <mdginzo@bellsuth.net> wrote in message
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past. Also, I didn't say Dian said adoption was bad. I simply disputed Dian's assertion that "all living things, both plant and animal" prefer to raise their own biological offspring because that behavior is "designed to ensure continuation of a species". Her statement was simply silly. Finally, what Dian did suggest was that "an overwhelmingly strong tendency in the general population to desire biological children ...over adoptive children" is not a problem -- an assertion I didn't comment on because it's much too complex an issue to make any kind of blanket judgement on. |
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"Dian" wrote: Quote:
consider that desire as a contributing factor to a -major- problem, yes. Which brings me back to the question of: is there literature anybody knows of which addresses the psychological/anthrolopgical ramifications of this with respect to adoption and attitudes towards adoption. jehanne |
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"Henry W. Moritz" <moc.ishcm@ztiromwh> wrote in message news:yXkUa.147603$Ph3.18800@sccrnsc04... Quote:
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bad, merely that wanting to raise one's own was good. Correct me if I am rong. |
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"jehanne" <jehanne_daix@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:N0DUa.121148$Io.10326687@newsread2.prod.itd.e arthlink.net... Quote:
overpopulating to the point of extinction. Malthus has been disproven, you know, a long time ago. Even the much maligned China policy of one-child was not designed to curtail species extinction, since Chinese populations had survived famine cycles for millenia. It was designed to relieve specific strains on rural resources to create surplus economies and social and ecomomic equilibrium. Ron Quote:
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"Ron Morgan" wrote: Quote:
But there's a carrying capacity *somewhere* out there, and unless we move into space or curtail our rampant breeding, eventually we'll reach it. We don't seem to be actively doing *either* as a species, at the moment, which is a shame. You'd think that a species capable of intelligently self-directing its evolution would start to actually *do* so at some point... (and yes, for those who'll ask, I believe it's possible to self-direct our evolution without resorting to state-sponsored eugenics programs). jehanne |
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"jehanne" <jehanne_daix@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<TYZUa.122275$Io.10445979@newsread2.prod.itd. earthlink.net>...
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Where is all this rampant breeding occurring? Most *western* countries have a zero population growth which means we are not even replacing ourselves. At this rate we should be almost extinct in generations to come. Most western countries encourage immigration, especially from Asia in order to keep their population levels up. We Quote:
you suppose they were introduced if not to begin controlling human breeding? Di (and yes, for those who'll ask, I believe it's possible to Quote:
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overshoot the carrying capacity, and there will ensue a population crash and massive global turmoil Quote:
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hasn't been, for the most part, an outgrowth of social planning efforts: it's the outgrowth of a more equal role for women in society, growing middle classes, increased urbanization... a whole host of things reason why people demand birth control for the purposes of controlling the details of their *own* lives, not (primarily) for improving the welfare of future generations. Quote:
more adaptive than any other sepcies? jehanne |
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In article <XSeUa.21428$Mc.1646195@newsread1.prod.itd.earthli nk.net>,
jehanne <jehanne_daix@hotmail.com> wrote: Quote:
I -am- a librarian. One of the first things a librarian learns is to be skeptical of sources. Your sources here are people in a newsgroup. What do you know of their expertise, let alone their innate prejudices? By asking the question here, you are doing the equivalent of a chat with your neighbor over the back fence. How do you know said neighbor knows anything about a particular subject? If you want to go the ask the experts route, find real experts. If you -work- in a library (public? academic? special? private?) someone there must know about Social Sciences Citation Index. Use that to snowball a search to find the experts. There are some valid shortcuts to doing good research. The particular shortcut you used is not one of them. Linda M.S.L.S. |
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"Linda Fortney" wrote: Quote:
"experts." I'd have to go and research their past work, their biases, etc. in order to know how to interpret their "wisdom." Quote:
neighbors, with various intelligences, backgrounds, and biases. "Two heads are better than one," right? (Often.) Two people know more than one; hundreds of people (this newsgroup), presumably know even more. Quote:
that at least -some- of the people here know more about adoption and adoption-related issues than I do. That, and it becomes fairly obvious from the way folks phrase their reponses and arguments roughly how much they know about a topic and whether I can consider them at all reliable. See below for an example of when I've actually *done* this. Quote:
didn't. I wanted to ask a mass of people with a passing familiarity with adoption issues about a relatively vague and difficult-to-define topic. Which is what I did. The fact that I still haven't gotten a good reply to this question in this particular group doesn't dismiss the technique, either, because I've been successful inquiring on Usenet in the past. Again, see below. Also, why bother experts with trivial questions like this, where it's more than likely someone out there on Usenet, who posts and has time to share ideas and thoughts (and comes to Usenet for the express purpose of doing so). Furthermore, if I go and ask an expert, only *I* directly benefit. Here, everyone who reads this newsgroup benefits from this discussion, and it's archived on google for years to come. That's another reason for inquiring this way. I stand by my approach. Quote:
it in finding particularly what *I'm* interested in on this topic. That, and I'd have to spend more time in the local university library looking up and reading multiple articles to find what I really want. I'm not *stupid,* y'know. I don't believe *everything* I hear or read. I *think,* and consider, and evaluate. Humans are amazing dynamic processors of information, much better than computers at present - especially at organizing integrating facts and ideas across disciplines. Just an example to prove my point: in responding to a message on a science-fiction newsgroup, I asked which works of Robert Heinlein refelected or included "libertarian" social structures. Within two days, I got half a dozen answers (some of which had replies to them), which described particular aspects of a number of Heinlein's major works, which most visibly included libertarian elements, which don't, where those elements tend to manifest themselves, etc. etc. So I cross-reference these messages in my mind, and with only five minutes of effort. And not only can I compare various messages for consistency, but I also get some comments from *other* people evaluating the quality of the reponses to my message. And if you read a little bit of the newsgroup's history, you can tell pretty quickly who gives intelligent, considered reponses, and who blurts things out only to retract them later. So with a maximum of about ten minutes of effort, I have a pretty solid idea of where I'd start reading if I wanted to see that side of Heinlein's writing. Find me an indexed and referreed database which can do -that-. No, it's not material you can cite in a bibliography. But it's a darn good resource. jehanne (just recently accepted to grad. school for library science) |
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In article <MmhVa.25557$Mc.1982621@newsread1.prod.itd.earthli nk.net>,
jehanne <jehanne_daix@hotmail.com> wrote: Quote:
between information found on a newsgroup and something published in a scholarly journal? Granted psychology isn't a hard science by any means. When one reads the Freudians one has to remember that Freud is *religion* and not science. Nevertheless I sincerely hope your attendance at library school will teach you that all opinions are NOT equal, and that the scholarly peer review system, although far from perfect, is the best method we have for ensuring that an author has some notion of what he or she is talking about. Quote:
If you are going to accept anything on this newsgroup as valid, you'd better do a background check on people's prejudices. Di, for instance is uttterly irrational on the subject of adoption. She thinks it is nothing by kidnapping. You aren't even asking the question in the right newsgroup. I won't direct you to a more appropriate one because the people there have enough stress in their lives. And, there aren't hundreds of people on this group either. Quote:
what you find here. If you are don't want to search the right way, then it is your problem. I suggested a method for you to find what you wanted and you chose to get defensive. Quote:
This precludes the notion that you could share findings acquired through *real* research on usenet. Quote:
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finding information, and you got extremely defensive. Quote:
And you could have found the same information by looking at some lit crit re Heinlein. Quote:
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opinions. And cripe, it isn't even a representative sample of opinions. Only the truly committed post here. Quote:
If you can possibly avoid it, don't take cataloging. They'll try to disguise it by calling it "Organization of Materials" or something equally begnin. Doubt you'll be able to get out of it though, most schools demand that you suffer through it. Reference classes are usually a hoot. They bring trucks of books into class, give you a rundown on them, and then set you loose in the reference room for a treasure hunt. I am sure that they've added strong electronic components to this course since I took it many years ago. See if you can take a social sciences research methods class outside of the Library School. Best course I ever took. Take all the computer classes you can, without becoming an Information Scientist. Courses in Web site design and administration will help you get a job when you graduate. Take anything you can about databases--I don't mean stuff like Access. If you can find a course on relational databases, take it. It will help you talk to OPAC producers and manipulate their badly designed systems. If you think you might want a reference job in an academic library, take a course in teaching methods for librarians. Academic reference jobs are hard to get, but teaching library instruction classes is a large component of the job. Having a class about it gives you gold stars. Linda |
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jurol@REMOVE.hotmail.com (Julia) wrote
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And you haven't even started in on the Hindu religious imperative to have a male heir.... Rupa |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:33:34 GMT, "jehanne" <jehanne_daix@hotmail.com>
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Some of us on alt.adoption avoid Linda.. Jackie |
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Jackie <jdajda@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<s23iivk0fm3lpnco9hf5dr5m9mfd379791@4ax.com>. ..
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"Rupa Bose" <rkbose@pacific.net.sg> wrote in message news:e5619372.0307311039.4a0f4e36@posting.google.c om... Quote:
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In article <s23iivk0fm3lpnco9hf5dr5m9mfd379791@4ax.com>,
Jackie <jdajda@newsguy.com> wrote: Quote:
my posts, praise allah, but you are only one person, not an US. Linda |
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On 1 Aug 2003 13:46:11 -0400, lfortney@dc.umd.edu (Linda Fortney)
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"not an US" < what does that mean? Jackie.. who used the word 'some'.. Main Entry: some 1 : being an unknown, undetermined, or unspecified unit or thing <some person knocked> 2 a : being one, a part, or an unspecified number of something (as a class or group) named or implied <some gems are hard> b : being of an unspecified amount or number <give me some water> <have some apples> |
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in article 6qspivgmi83sq7m13pklfo3vdos33m7402@4ax.com, Jackie at
jdajda@newsguy.com wrote on 3/8/03 12:36 pm: Quote:
alt.adoption avoids Linda.." and not "some", or is this the old multiple personality disorder playing up again. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) One \One\, a. 1. Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual. 2. Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. One \One\, n. 1. A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers. 2. A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i. 3. A single person or thing. One \One\, indef. pron. Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self. Robin |
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robinjh <nospam@robinjh.co.uk> wrote in message news:<BB52D703.1D0B5%nospam@robinjh.co.uk>...
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it would be some, as suggested by Jackie. Di |
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in article c599139c.0308032227.33c6f62a@posting.google.com, Dian at
patrice68@bigpond.com.au wrote on 4/8/03 7:27 am: Quote:
disorder. Jackie doesn't have even a single personality of her own, she has to rely on Di for all her opinions, views and decisions. So if Di avoids someone, naturally that counts for Jackie as well. I'll have to try and remember that in future. Mind you it does mean that when Jackie and Di are in agreement, that sill probably only counts as "one". Robin |
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On 3 Aug 2003 23:27:52 -0700, patrice68@bigpond.com.au (Dian) wrote:
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Some (not all mind) think they know it all.. Funny eh. Jackie |
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in article 2omsiv0jrfet3ruu93v7stju1068dddqeg@4ax.com, Jackie at
jdajda@newsguy.com wrote on 4/8/03 2:10 pm: Quote:
think what drivel you email to people. Robin |
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Jackie <jdajda@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<3rmsiv8dkpsf83bsplsd1cs05ua8ap1rv7@4ax.com>. ..
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I've noticed. <grin> Di |
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in article er4vivo8tm3mlpg594n3f30eldfccbnfs4@4ax.com, Jackie at
jdajda@newsguy.com wrote on 5/8/03 12:23 pm: Quote:
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